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Paschal Sherman Indian School Superintendent

Colville Confederated Tribes
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CLOSING DATE:  May 2, 2026 

POSITION:           Paschal Sherman Indian School Superintendent

SALARY:              $126,984 to $147,200, Salary DOE

REPORTS TO:     PSIS School Board Chair

LOCATION:         Paschal Sherman Indian School, Omak, Washington

 

BASIC FUNCTIONS: The Superintendent is the ranking executive in the District.  With strategic guidance from the Board, the position is responsible for integrating education, business support, services, and ancillary activities for all schools and properties.  The position directs and facilitates a complex process of planning, designing, and implementing education and support to a diverse student population.  Problem solving challenges are highly complex, multidisciplinary, strategic in nature, and must consider significant trade-offs and risks.  Contacts with all departments, parents, students, outside agencies, and advisory boards are ongoing and continuous.   Plans, organizes, directs, and integrates a complex and financially responsible system of education for schools serving a diverse pre-school and K-12 population.  Provides leadership over, and develops and maintains an environment that contributes to high levels of academic achievement, allocation of resources, and staff productivity.  Ensures that business support, curriculum, mandated and ancillary programs for special populations are designed, organized, and implemented in accordance with District and external requirements. 

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Training: 

  • Requires a Master’s Degree in Education, Business, or equivalent discipline, certified in the State of Washington as a Superintendent,
  • Requires 10 years of experience as a teacher and site-based administrator or District-level executive.
  • Requires a valid driver’s license and be eligible for the Tribes’ insurance.  
  •  Requires an approved teaching and administrative credential.  The teaching and administrative credential requirement may be waived by the Board of Education. 
  • A PhD or EdD is desired. 
  • Competency in a second language is desired.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • Requires advanced specialized professional-level knowledge of concepts, principles, and practices in instruction, curriculum, and education administration. 
  • Requires knowledge of the theories, procedures, methods, and requirements for designing, implementing, and integrating curriculum theory and action plans that accomplish educational goals in a K-12 environment. 
  • Requires knowledge of theories, procedures, methods of business and financial management.
  • Requires advanced knowledge of the principles of leadership and managing for results. 
  • Requires professional language and writing skills to develop complex business plans, goals and objectives, and make formal presentations.
  • Requires sufficient math skills to review financial, statistical, and academic numeric. 
  • Requires advanced human relations skills to conduct formal presentations to large and diverse audiences, to facilitate administrative-level group action planning, external relations, conflict resolution, performance appraisal, and facilitate in-service education.
  • Knowledge of tribal culture, traditions, and kinship; and expected to demonstrate willingness to learn and engage respectfully.
  • Requires the ability to perform duties of the job that support its objectives. 
  • Requires the ability to plan, prioritize, and assign work in order to meet objectives, schedules, and timelines and convert to goals and objectives for subordinate functions and positions.
  • Requires the ability to develop productive work teams.
  • Requires ability to write complex reports and program materials. 
  • Requires the ability to administer business, scope of service, and collective bargaining agreements.
  • Requires the ability to interact on both a formal and informal basis with a wide range of contacts within and outside of the school setting to articulate, define, and advance public education.

Physical requirements:

  • Requires the ability to perform the functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.
  • Requires ambulatory ability to sit for extended periods of time and travel to multiple locations.
  • Requires visual acuity to recognize letters and numbers and notice non-verbal behavior.
  • Requires auditory ability to hear and respond to in-person and phone conversations, and give presentations to large audiences.

Note: Pursuant to Tribal Policy, if this position is safety sensitive it is subject to pre-employment drug testing. In addition, this position is subject to reasonable suspicion and post-accident drug testing.

 

TRIBAL MEMBER AND INDIAN PREFERENCE WILL APPLY; PREFERENCE WILL ALSO BE GIVEN TO HONORABLY DISCHARGED VETERANS WHO ARE MINIMALLY QUALIFIED.

 

If required of this position, you must possess and maintain a valid Washington State driver’s license and be eligible for the Tribes’ Vehicle Insurance.  In addition, this position may be subject to pre-employment background clearances.  If applicable, these clearances must be maintained throughout employment.

 

INFORMATION: Tanya Ives, HR Senior Analyst, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Human Resources Office, P.O. Box 150, Nespelem, WA 99155, (509) 634-2201. tanya.ives.hrs@colvilletribes.com